Monday, August 20, 2007
 From New York Daily News August 20: "A DNA lab with financial ties to former Police Commissioner Howard Safir has reaped millions in city contracts despite serious questions about its performance.
The Bode Technology Group has two city contracts worth $20million with the NYPD and city medical examiner. Both pacts have been repeatedly extended without competition from other bidders.
Two of those extensions came months after Bode was fired by Illinois State Police in 2005 for botching the DNA testing on an unusually high percentage of rape-evidence kits.
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In 1999 and into 2000, when he was still police commissioner, Safir was involved in approving the original NYPD contract with Bode...
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Safir left the department and went to work for a data collection firm, ChoicePoint, and within four months of leaving 1 Police Plaza, persuaded ChoicePoint to buy Bode.
Now a consultant to Bode's parent company, Safir boasted about the contract with the NYPD in press releases and on TV - apparently as a way to attract more business.
In a Feb. 15, 2002, appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Winfrey referred to Safir as a "consultant to a DNA testing lab," though she did not identify the firm or reveal it had been hired by the NYPD.
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In February 2006, New York City's chief medical examiner signed yet another amendment to its ongoing $12.5 million contract with Bode to analyze DNA of 9/11 victims.
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